Michael McWhertor, Author at Kotaku

Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition Sees Gold Sales In Japan

The re-release of Resident Evil 5—aka Biohazard on that side of the Pacific—looks like it has already paid for itself, the zombie hunting adventures of Chris and Jill delivering another 143,000 scares to Japanese gamers. This week also saw another PlayStation 3 exclusive or two arrive in Japan, Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain, selling well enough…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2010

Pac-Man Battle Royale Does Quad Pac Damage

Namco is giving Pac-Man another chance to satisfy his hunger for dots and ghost flesh at arcades, unveiling Pac-Man Battle Royale at next month’s Amusement Expo show in Las Vegas. What is Pac-Man Battle Royale? It’s not a fighting game in the Tekken vein, as some of us theorized, but what appears to be a…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 25, 2010

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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Micro-review: Snack Of The Clones

The puzzle’s the thing in The Odd Gentlemen’s time-twisting, brain-teasing platformer The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, a pie collecting adventure made fascinating by the eponymous Winterbottom and his superhuman ability to clone himself. In The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, players control the umbrella-wielding Winterbottom and his many clones, which are recorded loops of the pie-hungry…